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From: Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Overriding behavior in major modes (sql-mode, here)
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:25:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874pi1fw1a.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: afSdnZpuKdGeqHvbnZ2dnUVZ_rbinZ2d@comcast.com

Michael Trausch <"mike|s/\x40/\./g;s/|.*|/\x40/g;|trausch"@us> writes:

> There is a slight annoyance in sql-mode in Emacs 22 that I would like to
> work around.  Namely, I would like to use the <tab> key to indent by two
> spaces.  So far, simply setting indent-tabs-mode to nil and tab-width to
> 2 does the job for me, but in sql mode, those settings seem to be ignored.
>
> How do I go about forcing the <tab> key to behave the way that I would
> like it to behave---consistently with all my other editing tasks?
>

A very quick look makes me think that sql-mode is using the tab-to-tab-stop
function to do its indentation. I would try setting tab-stop-list and see
if that helps. M-x edit-tab-stops will let you edit the list
interactively. 

HTH

Tim

--
tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-11  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-11  6:26 Overriding behavior in major modes (sql-mode, here) Unknown
2007-09-11  8:25 ` Tim X [this message]
2007-09-11 15:08   ` Unknown

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